Deciding Design Posts

I’ve lived in the same rental house in the heart of downtown Toronto for almost five years now, and for four of those years we have had a summer garden in our back yard. When we first moved in, the plantable area in the back wasn’t very plant-able at all…

John Maeda wrote a post in 2010 about the hierarchical nature of creativity and imagination that is summed up as a clear mental model by Patti Brennan – “teaching creativity doesn’t work, but expanding imagination might work better”. When it comes to business innovation and design, imagination seems like an…

I’ve always thought that creativity can be taught. It’s a skill – something to be learned, practiced, and mastered. I’ve often gone against the commonly held beliefs that people are inherently creative, and choose to exercise my creative muscles whenever I can; I play in a band, I try my…

Why do companies need to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Because it is a present must. No longer are the days when global organizations can simply throw money at causes or problems and expect them to go away. They have to earn the dollars of their consumers through sustainably…

When I grew old enough to work a Monday-to-Friday, nine-to-five job, I just took businesses for granted. My father ran a small composite lumber factory that I worked at in the summers, and it never crossed my mind to think about how his business came to exist; I never considered…